Department of Computer Science

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Richard Wilson

I am a Professor in the
Department of Computer Science at the University of York. I completed a
BA in Physics from St. John's College, Oxford in 1992 and a PhD in
computer vision from the University of York in 1996. I have published
more than 150 papers in international journals and conferences.
According to Google Scholar, my work has been cited more than 2000
times and I have an h-index of 23.

My research interests are wide-reaching but mainly involve the areas of
computer vision and pattern recognition, particularly problems
involving graphs and networks. I have worked on Bayesian methods for
graph matching and the development of spectral techniques for
structural pattern recognition, developing new feature sets for
describing graphs and networks. I have also published research in the
fields of quantum computing, shape-from-shading, speech recognition and
protein matching.

My current interests involve trying to obtain a better quantitive
understanding of complex networks. I am working on ways to measure the
complexity of directed and undirected networks, and how to characterise
large networks in an efficient way using walks and cycles. I am also
interesting in statistical models of network classes which can be
learnt from data.

I was a member of the British Physics Olympiad team in 1988, won the K.
M. Stott prize for best thesis from the University of York in 1995 and
was a member of the winning team in the 1996 BCS programming
competition. I was also an EPSRC advanced research fellow from
1998-2003. I am a fellow of the IAPR and a Senior Member of IEEE.

Research

My research mainly lies in the area of statistical
pattern recognition and its application to computer vision problems. I
am willing to supervise research students in these areas. More details
can be found on the research page.

Code for the paper "Spherical and Hyperbolic Embeddings of Data" can
be found here.

Tutorials and
Talks

You can find links to
slides for some of my more recent talks and tutorials at the Tutorials and Talks page

Publications/CV

My full CV is available here
and includes a relatively up-to-date list of publications